Thursday, February 26, 2009

On the semantics of portrait voodling

The hallmark "blur"—sometimes a softening, sometimes almost a hard smear —has two effects: 1. It offers the footage a painted appearance; and 2. Paradoxically, it testifies the voodler's editing actions, both skilled and coarse, and the plastic nature of the voodle itself. In some voodles blurs and smudges are severe enough to disrupt the footage; it becomes hard to understand or believe. The subject is nullified. In these voodles, images and symbols (such as landscapes, portraits, and other footage) are rendered fragile illusions, fleeting conceptions in our constant reshaping of the world."

3 Comments:

Here, too, the viewer has options and control. Focus in the center of the screen, and the experience of the blur on the periphery changes.Focus on her face, and the experience changes again.

Also, I found myself intrigued with thoughts most notable for their irrelevance--"is she more attractive in blur, or in sharpened focus?" No matter how the images are constructed, a sense of story arises in thought.

The fjord was amazing. A perfectly restful lumiere.

These great Buddha loop soundtracks will finally get me to spring the modest money for my own Buddha machine :)

I think you should get into a another film festival or seminar this Summer, as this is beginning to look like an extremely good year to travel, and it would be fun to see Europe again!

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